“Today we're discussing your book, Inventing the Renaissance. Ada, thanks for coming on the podcast.”
Books mentioned in Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2026-03-06
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“That is the war Machiavelli watched. Machiavelli was raised on all of the Cicero and Livy.”
“The book you recommend on your website, The Renaissance in Italy, I keep forgetting the name of the author.”
“When Luther makes the Ninety-five Theses public, they're in print in London seventeen days after he releases them in Wittenberg.”
“There's a brilliant analysis in Anton Matytsin's book, The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment.”
“on… Many people are familiar with Greenblatt's book, The Swerve, which credits a lot of change to the materialist science that this poem articulates.”
“Milton of Paradise Lost fame wrote our first big defense of the free press. This is in the moment in the early 1600s when England doesn't yet”
“is important, the Areopagitica. It’s a beautifully written rhetorical piece that presents the”